New preprint from Michael’s collaboration with colleagues at Eawag

We just posted a bioRxiv preprint entitled “Physical contacts between sparse biofilms promote plasmid transfer and generate functional novelty,” from Michael’s collaboration with Josep Ramoneda, Yinyin Ma, Dave Johnson, and others at Eawag. In the preprint we explore the effect of physical collisions between expanding biofilms on horizontal gene transfer, namely carrying antibiotic resistance genes.